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Sarasota News Leader October 4, 2013 Seven items of interest show up under "Unfinished Business" in the afternoon. Five of them are new roundabouts on major local roads. City Engineer Alex DavisShaw will provide a status report. Page 22 parking since the city let the agreement lapse in late July. INTO THE EVENING After taking a break for an early dinner, the Next, the commissioners will be asked to pay commissioners will return at 6 p.m. to hear $18,000 to display the sculpture Bharata in a proposal that could change the face of the city. It would be a hiking, jogging and bicycle Five Points Park. path from Payne Park to Venice and beyond. And Deputy City Manager Marlon Brown will brief the commissioners on his talks with real Of course, half of that is already built. It is estate firm Michael Saunders and Co. about called the Legacy Trail, and it extends through leasing a parking lot at South Orange Avenue a large part of Palmer Ranch before terminatand Laurel Street. The city lease for that lot ing south of Clark Road in Sarasota. A group of cost $1,000 per month, but the fee has gone up volunteers is raising awareness to build eight to $1,800 for the 60-space area. Burns Square more miles of non-motorized recreational merchants have been crying for additional trail alongside the unused CSX/Seminole Gulf Burns Square merchants are pleading with the city to provide more parking spaces for their customers. Photo by Norman Schimmel